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RE: Health Care Policy
Posted: Tuesday, 1/27/2009: 3:44:59 PM     quality
Nancy Pelosis only wants to serve mankind, wasn't that a Twilight Zone episode, the book to serve mankind was actually a cookbook?
Anyway, humor aside, how ols is Nancy anyway? She may not have to worry about Medicare, but her family and friends will
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RE: "I Hope Obama Fails"
Posted: Tuesday, 1/27/2009: 11:38:53 AM quality
GWD, health care is still based in the US, hospitals that is, unless you discount the number of hospitals that is letting tele-medicine networks have Radiologists in India and environs read the CT and Sonograms that occur after hours along with other films. The good news, they still need humans in the US to move the patients around, so far
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RE: Health Care Policy
Posted: Tuesday, 1/27/2009: 9:06:35 AM quality
A long time ago, well, the late 60's it was. A gentleman in England came up with a way to make x-ray pictures which had been digitized into a picture that would show cross-sectional anatomy. He worked at EMI (Electrical Musical Instruments, they recorded the Beatles before Apple)which unerstood computers and images. Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1979 for his invention, a Computerized Axial Tomographic Scanner (CAT Scanner)
Very few English medical eqipment companies make CT scanners, none have many innovations, there is no market for them.
There was an imaging technology that was around for a very long time, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) it was heavily studied at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. The name seemed to put many people off and so the technology was retitled Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), I guess taking nuclear out meant it was less scary, even though the resonating of the nucleus of the atoms in the foundation of the images produced.
Again, not a whole bunch of innovation in Scotland relating to the use and manufacure of MRI equipment. That comes in the US where the companies might expect to sell a few. With socialized medicine, innovaton of equipment and techniques slow down
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RE: Somebody start the fire...
Posted: Monday, 1/26/2009: 3:19:55 PM quality
throw some sparks on some steel wool and watch the steel burn, always a true thrill.
and oh yeah, it stinks, do this out side, far far outside, but its so kewl!!!!
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RE: How to build a pyramid tower
Posted: Monday, 1/26/2009: 8:55:37 AM quality
and here
http://www.scouting.org.za/resources/pioneering/HourglassTower.pdf
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RE: Health Care Policy
Posted: Monday, 1/26/2009: 7:50:49 AM quality
First, we need to look at what we call health Care. For most people its the family physician, but its so much more.
Does health care include the motorized wheelchairs that are advertised on TV as being basically "FREE". The compnay works with Medicare and your insurance and if the compnay says you get one, you get one with no cost to you. Who pays for that? (This is an example, I don't want to take anybody's wheel chair from them"
Will the same policy cover physicians and hopsitals? Hospitals already due to EMTALA legislation cannot refuse treatment to anyone who presents, a physician can elect who he/she will treat.
The Government tells the physician how much money they will get when treating a Medicare or Medicaid patient, so , how do we keep getting physicians if we cap the earnings potential?
What if we socialize Medicine, or rather further socialize Medicine to its final point? Should there be rates for better risks? Smokers? Sorry, no care or at a premium, then if you are 10% overweight, you pay 10% more in premiums, and so on. If genetic testing is used and if you are predisposed to breast cancer, why not prophylacticly remove them. In fact, if you don't and you get breast cancer, why should it be covered, you had your chance.
Prenatal care is a big issue, so many congenital problems occur because the mother smokes, does drugs, doesnt eat correctly, dosen't excercise, do we have the pre-natal police? Testing your blood randomly to be sure the mother is behaving properly? Or at least within "Limits"? And what is the recourse? Pre-natal holding cells? A healthy baby is the the right of the state?
If you are diabetic or prone to diabetes, are you taxed more if you are above your target weight? Do you "have" to participate in state run excercise programs? Should all fertilized eggs be collected and cared for with modifications to them so they are predisposed to be happy in needed jobs? Embryos set in spinning centrifuges so they will only be happy when spinning? Great trainning for Space Station mechanics or Carnival ride operators. A Brave New World indeed.
How do we get to socialized medicine? Wipe out private insurance? How many people is that? How much money does the country have invested in Insurance stock? What happens to the employees? Do we reduce the R&D in equipment, in surgical techniques?
"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride"(This message has been edited by OldGreyEagle)
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RE: Thoughts on homemade firestarters.
Posted: Monday, 1/26/2009: 7:15:29 AM quality
define "bad smell"
WHen I smell a home made fire starter, if I can smell one at all, I smell the planning, the excitement, the energy, the overall good feeling of a boy doing something on his own, or with a parent.
I never smell anything bad
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RE: Say goodbye to the balance of Alan Colmes
Posted: Sunday, 1/25/2009: 5:27:35 PM quality
Colbert? The guy on Comedy Central? Isn't he a hoot? Parodying talk show hosts? He crackse me up
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RE: Say goodbye to the balance of Alan Colmes
Posted: Friday, 1/23/2009: 2:25:32 PM quality
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RE: "I Hope Obama Fails"
Posted: Friday, 1/23/2009: 9:09:19 AM quality
Who was it that said:
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'"
Now, that does not mean it's fair to complain that the president's tie is not red, white, and blue enough or that his American Flag lapel pin should be larger, or smaller. It means his policies and decisions about the government are up for discussion.
Can we wait for him to do something before we strike?
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RE: The Price and the Promise of Citizenship - Obama
Posted: Friday, 1/23/2009: 9:00:11 AM quality
Hey GWD, if you run for President, the Feds won't have to run down anything. Your complete dossier including birth parents and adoptive parents names and foibles and peccadilloes and yours would be known, published, broadcasted and blogged before you could tie a Bowline on a Bight (I would say french bowline, but then someone would say I should have said Freedom bowline and who wants that?)
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RE: Scouting is the best progam for developing character
Posted: Thursday, 1/22/2009: 1:10:21 PM quality
I think Boy Scouts is the broadest youth program teaching the values that have been enumerated. Yes, a band may provide training in integrity, discipline, and teamwork. A Sports team may endow the youth in a background of physical activity. But the point may be moot if I am devoid of musical or athletic talent. In Boy Scouts a boy may develop talents as he matures, talents not present upon joining. The BSA joining requirements are mighty broad, not nearly as demanding as being a starter on a traveling Soccer Club Team or Diving Club
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RE: Say goodbye to the balance of Alan Colmes
Posted: Thursday, 1/22/2009: 7:23:40 AM quality
gern, thats an ancient Chineese curse, ain't it?
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RE: Changing "Avowed" ruling to broader context?
Posted: Wednesday, 1/21/2009: 10:18:07 AM quality
Gern, Gern, Gern, Gern, and it was going along so well, well I thought it was. Gay, Avowed or otherwise, does not equal Pedophilic anymoer than being Heterosexaul equals Pedophilic.
For every male authority figure (Coach, Teacher, etc) in the paper molesting boys, there is a comparative story about a male molesting a girl.
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RE: What does your troop do/allow for the sports/band
Posted: Wednesday, 1/21/2009: 6:41:40 AM quality
I don't know how many of you watched the Tournament of Roses Parade, I was on my way home from Arkansas after visiting my father myself. One of the plethora of High School Bands that were on the parade were the Liberty Hurricaines from Bethlehem, PA. That tall thin Drum Major is an Eagle Scout. The Band has a rigourous schedule, some have said football games at Liberty were played so the band would have a place to appear (Then in 2008 the team won the state Championship in their class but I digress. Lots of kids want on the Band and the schedule is brutal. "Band Camp" in the summer is the worst, 8-4 or something like that matching in fields, getting down the footwork et al. The beginning of Band Camp always seemed to be during the week the Troop went to summer camp. And there was no leniency, you miss any part of Band Camp, and you can't be in the Band. Very powerful incentive as I understand. Our Scoutmaster made an appointment to talk to the band Director about letting the scouts stay at camp and come "Late". No Deal the scoutmaster was told.
The Scoutmaster asked about the composition of the band and the student struture. The Band has student Officers and a student Quartermaster to take care of the equipment. The Scoutmaster then rattled off the names of the past 5 Quartermasters and various Band Officers, the Band Director asked why the Scoutmaster would know these kids and was told. "They are all Boy Scouts", not all from the Troop he served, but from the Troops in town. The Band Director said he appointed as Quartermaster Seniors who were diligient and trustworthy students, he did not releaize they were also Eagle Scouts. The Scouts got their repreive from Band Camp.
During Band season its another story. The Bando's come to events when they can and since the football team has the unmitigated gall to win the State Championship, that was one long season. Stretched across Scouting for Food weekends and other events. Duty Rosters factor in when the band kids come so the work is spread out.
BTW, one of the linebackers on the Football team is a Life Scout, prospective Eagle Candidate this Spring. There is noting like seeing the younger scouts run over to him and look at his Letterman's jacket with patches, medals, and then see the Boy Scout uniform under it. Pretty powerful stuff
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